How I shot and edited Cygnus constellation UNTRACKED at 50mm

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How I shot and edited Cygnus constellation UNTRACKED at 50mm - deep sky nebulae without a tracker

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Here I show step by step how I edited my widefield deep sky photo of the Cygnus constellation (and part of Cepheus) including north america nebula, pelican nebula, veil nebula, elephant's trunk nebula etc. I shot this with my astro modified Canon EOS R and a Sigma ART 50mm f/1.4 lens and just a standard photography tripod - NO TRACKER!. I edited it using PixInsight and Photoshop and in the video I show all the steps in the editing process as well as describe my sky conditions.
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Пікірлер: 46

@matej.mlakar 2 жыл бұрын

That feeling when Kamil has a better untracked image than my tracked one.

@falveyy 2 жыл бұрын

same hahaa

@akkarparkiamopas3401 2 жыл бұрын

I guess astro modified camera is the key in order to get that red colour. Thanks for a nice video.

@arghadipghosh5880 2 жыл бұрын

Great video 🙌 Glad to see some KZfaqr still think about beginners and doing untracked. Thank you so much 🙌

@mikehardy8247 2 жыл бұрын

What he said! I have both star adventurer, and move-shoot-move, but do untracked alot. My nephew is starting this journey totally untracked. This will be of great help to him. Finding your sight was priceless. I'm buying him a "nifty 50' per your suggestion. For the holiday. THANKS

@lukomatico 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great video Kamil!! - awesome job putting this together dude 👍👍 Really stunning image!

@danm3844 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kamil! This is a great video and you did a wonderful job capturing and processing this image! Since this is a “without a tracker” video, I imagine you’re looking to appeal to the beginner crowd, people that are interested in getting into astrophotography, but don’t own a star tracker yet or a lot of dedicated equipment yet. The problem is that this audience likely won’t have Pixinsight either. I think it would have been better if you did all of your stretching and processing in photoshop.

@TheTabugman 2 жыл бұрын

Top notch as always. Keep 'em coming! ❤️

@astrobua2343 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this tutorial! I will definitely try that out with my Canon 50 mm 1.4. I hope it is not too "soft" wide open.

@GrayGhostRyders 2 жыл бұрын

Wow... I have watched several of your earlier Astrophotography videos, (as well as way too many from other KZfaqrs) and this one is by far one of the best I have watched so far... I will be going over it several more times to get down the details in my editing... Thank you so very much for posting this video... I will definitely be joining your Patreon next... Please keep up the great work...

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words!!

@ponapoastro Жыл бұрын

Thanks Man!!!

@jwdeepsky Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna go for this frame on my star adventurer

@ponapo9653 Жыл бұрын

Dziękuje Kamilu nie wiedziałem że jest taki program do trakowania cropa że tak to nazwę napewno przy fotografii telefonem mi to pomorze do stackowania

@RahilSethi 10 ай бұрын

I mean one can easily buy a used star tracker like SWSA for couple of 100 bucks and then don't have to worry about reframing, be able to take more light frames and longer exposures. Will make life easy. Not sure why go without it since you aren't doing astro-landscape. I don't even know or care about 500 or NPF Rule anymore.

@kfelandros 2 жыл бұрын

bardzo super! wielkie dzieki bede probował! ;))

@bodywise007 2 жыл бұрын

wonderful video. But very complex

@kalef1234 2 жыл бұрын

damn that was a lot...but i can always watch it 12 times!

@BurgerOosthuizen 2 ай бұрын

Good morning, which is better, Pixinsight or Photoshop? Thanks

@panos5366 Жыл бұрын

I literally have the same lens and i shot 2 hours worth of tracked data with 2 min subexposures and my photo is not nearly as good. Pls help me! How do you get this level of detail.

@GalaxyArtMedia 2 жыл бұрын

Nice results Kamil ! I have imaged it also this summer and autumn but did not found the time to make the video. you always make star removal? i noticed some visible artifacts when zooming in

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah most of the time I do because then I can work on the contrast of the nebulae without saturating the stars

@GalaxyArtMedia 2 жыл бұрын

@@kamilkp i make also mask in photoshop when i need

@Talalpro_1 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing But I have a question how do you avoid dithering and walking noise I hate them so much they ruin astro for me also untracked

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

When you shoot untracked you dither whether you’re aware of that or not. Think about it: the sky moves, the camera stays still, so every frame is slightly different. This is what dithering is

@guillaumeherve7568 2 жыл бұрын

Impressive job Kamil ! I got one question. I tried to use the StarNet but I don’t know how the RGB and Grayscale weights files are prepared prior to the application of the process. Could uou give some clues please ?

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

You just need to download them from somewhere. Google „starnet++ weights files”

@guillaumeherve7568 2 жыл бұрын

@@kamilkp Thank you, after having asked the question I have lurked on the web and downloaded the software with the .pb files but I was not sure that it was the best solution. You confirmed that is was suitable ! Thanks again

@desmcmorrow2978 2 жыл бұрын

That's an incredibly impressive image. I'm just getting into Milky Way imaging coming from a DSO background. I have a Canon 750Da, Sigma Art 40mm 1.4, and just acquired an Omegon lx4. Testing of the latter seems to show that 2 mins subs at 40mm are possible with no star trailing. The weak link in the system seems to be the camera which has a particular kind of banding unique to certain versions of the 750d. I'm torn between getting an astro modded 800d/850d or 250d, or going for an unmodded Canon R. Any guidance appreciated. In particular does the Canon R unmodded have enough sensitivity to Ha, and do you use an RF to EF converter? I believe one can get a version of the latter that accommodates standard 2" filters. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Des

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

I think the R is the next 6D mark I for astro. I got mine astro modded and I love it. But I was also shooting astro before the mod and it does pick up some Ha but obviously not a lot. I use the standard RF-EF adapter and clip in filters like Astronomik Ha or Optolong L-Pro

@desmcmorrow2978 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Where did you get it modded? Best, Des

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

We have a guy in Poland that astro mods Canon cameras. Everybody here sends him their cameras and so did I

@desmcmorrow2978 2 жыл бұрын

@@kamilkp thanks

@krzysztof7633 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Kamil, great tutorial as usual. I have a question- how did you bring Starnet to Process/Mask Generation? you work on Mac and this is why I am asking. not clear for me how to manage it on Mac.

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure that in most recent versions of PixInsight it’s already built-in and integrated

@krzysztof7633 2 жыл бұрын

@@kamilkp strange. I do not have it. should I install something? bring Starnet to Pixinsight library? sorry to bother you .

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know. When I istalled PixInsight it was just there. You need to google it

@kamilkp 2 жыл бұрын

I did not. But youtube might have if it thought it was spam (e.g. if you included a link to a website)